From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 17 11:30:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C996F1136E; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA17995; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:31:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11772; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:29:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) id OAA13214; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:29:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:29:50 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199902171929.OAA13214@lakes.dignus.com> To: grog@lemis.com, tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: gdb sucks - and I need to get around it. help? Cc: eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902171829.LAA19473@usr07.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Maybe if someone invents a debugger that can replay the last 10 > steps, and the last 10 control breaks, e.g., the last 10 for > loop iterations, and the entry conditions into the for loop, the > while loop before it, the function call they're in, etc.. It'd > be a lot of state to hold onto, but it would make the thing at > least minimally usable. Assuming it's not Windows, of course; if > you BSOD, you'll have a hell of a time replaying anything. 8-(. > > Are you listening, xgdb or ups? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Just F.Y.I. - the Tachyon mainframe emulator's debugger does something like this (see http://www.tachyonsoft.com/tachyon). It's not exactly germain to this discussion, but I thought I'd hold it up as an example... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message